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Wednesday, March 5, 2014

NEW YORK, NY – March 1,
2014 – Twenty years ago, in March 1994, Berkley Books introduced
Berkley Prime Crime, a mass market mystery imprint that included five
launch authors. This year, Berkley celebrates the
20th anniversary of Prime Crime with special author events and promotional giveaways.

In its first year, Berkley Prime Crime (BPC)
published approximately forty titles, all mass market. In 2013, the
imprint published 150 titles, including mass market originals, trade
paperbacks, and hardcovers. Every year, BPC launches
approximately 25-30 new series, including several house-owned
franchises that editors have developed from idea to execution. In the
past year, BPC debuted sixteen titles on the
New York Times Bestsellers List (printed and extended lists combined), which comes out to more than one per month!

“When we launched Berkley Prime Crime in March 1994
I believed that the audience for the traditional or ‘cozy’ mystery was
still largely underserved and untapped. Twenty years later I can say
without reservation that this has proven to
be correct and that Berkley Prime Crime has succeeded beyond my wildest
expectations,” said Natalee Rosenstein, Vice President and Senior
Executive Editor of Berkley.

Throughout the
remainder of 2014, more events and promotional giveaways are planned, in
addition to Berkley Prime Crime’s annual presence at mystery
conventions BoucherCon and Malice Domestic. You can find out
more about Berkley Prime Crime titles and authors at The Crime Scene,
our cozy mystery Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/thecrimescenebooks.

A GIVEAWAY TO CELEBRATE!

Thanks to Berkley for offering a special 20th Anniversary Berkley Prime Crime Tote Bag filled with 5 Berkley Cozies to use as a giveaway on BOOKIN' WITH BINGO. The cozies
included in the tote will be a mystery, but all will be Berkley Prime Crime titles. Comment below for your chance to win this fabulous, generous prize from Berkley!

--U.S. RESIDENTS ONLY
--NO P. O. BOXES
---INCLUDE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
IN CASE YOU WIN!--ALL COMMENTS MUST BE SEPARATE TOCOUNT AS MORE THAN ONE!

HOW TO ENTER:

+1 ENTRY:COMMENT ON WHAT YOU READ ABOVE ABOUT THE BERKLEY PRIME CRIME 20th ANNIVERSARY THAT MADE YOU WANT TO WIN THIS PRIZE, AND DON'T FORGET YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS

+1 MORE ENTRY:VISIT BERKLEY PRIME CRIME ON FACEBOOK BY CLICKING HERE AND LIKE THEIR PAGE. A COMMENT THERE MIGHT ALSO BE NICE!

+1 MORE ENTRY:VISIT ANY ONE OF THE BERKLEY PRIME CRIME AUTHORS LISTED ABOVE AND COMMENT BELOW ON SOMETHING YOU FOUND INTERESTING ABOUT THEM OR PERHAPS A BOOK OF THEIRS YOU HAVE READ OR WOULD LIKE TO READ

+1 MORE ENTRY:VISIT
ANY OTHER OF THE BERKLEY PRIME CRIME AUTHORS LISTED ABOVE AND COMMENT ON
SOMETHING BELOW YOU FOUND INTERESTING ABOUT THEM OR PERHAPS A BOOK OF THEIRS
YOU HAVE READ OR WOULD LIKE TO READ. FOR EACH ONE YOU VISIT AND DO THIS, YOU MAY ENJOY AN EXTRA ENTRY!

+1 MORE ENTRY: COMMENT
ON ONE WAY YOU FOLLOW MY BLOG. IF YOU FOLLOW MORE THAN
ONE WAY, YOU CAN COMMENT SEPARATELY AND EACH WILL
COUNT AS AN ENTRY

+1 MORE ENTRY:COMMENT
ON A CURRENT GIVEAWAY THAT YOU HAVE ENTERED ON MY
BLOG. IF YOU ENTERED MORE THAN ONE, YOU MAY COMMENT
SEPARATELY FOR EACH TO RECEIVE MORE ENTRIES

I looked at Avery Aames site because I had tried to win Days of Wine and Roquefort. I just entered her first 5 books to read on my Goodreads. She also writes as Daryl Wood Gerber with a new series that sounds good too. It's a Cookbook Nook Mystery series. marybrandis@gmail.com

I went to Carolyn Hart's site. I see she has written books for many years. I would like to read her first book from 1987 Death on Demand. I see she is a cat person and I am a dog person. Will not hold it against her for having a tab on her site all about cats :)marybrandis@gmail.com